Simon Griffee

What: Usability

• Keep It Extremely Simple, or 66% of the Population Can’t Use Your Design #

  Usability guru Jakob Nielsen: Overall, people with strong technology skills make up a 5–8% sliver of their country’s population, whatever rich country they may be coming from. Go back to the OECD’s definition of the level-3 skills, quoted above. Consider defining your goals based on implicit criteria. Or overcoming unexpected outcomes and impasses while using the computer. Or evaluating the relevance and reliability of information in order to discard distractors. …continue

• Resizer #

  While exploring the Google Design site I came across Resizer — a viewer to test Material Design breakpoints.

• Every Few Years People Remember Websites Should Be Simple and Simplicity is Hard #

  UX Check is a Google Chrome browser extension that helps identify usability issues based on Jacob Nielsen’s1 website usability principles: Visibility of system status: The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time. Match between system and the real world: The system should speak the users’ language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making information appear in a natural and logical order. …continue

• Firefox 29’s Element Inspector’s Worse Usability

  This (before Firefox 29): Was much better than this: Instead of having the useful dropdown and inspector icons on the annotation box itself, you now need to move the mouse cursor to the markup in the HTML pane way down below and right-click with the mouse to see the options to copy inner or outer HTML, edit HTML, etc. Paul Fitts would be pissed off.1 I am, too. Fortunately, Bugzilla exists. …continue

• Intro.js - Help People Use Complex Web Applications #

• Ten Rules for Designing for Low Bandwidth #

• Tourist.js #

  Not them.

• Enable Colors in Mac OS X Terminal #

  Put the following in the .profile or .bashrc file in your home directory:

  export CLICOLOR=1
  export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad
  PS1='\[\e[1;33m\]\h:\[\e[0m\]\[\e[1;34m\]\W\[\e[0m\] \[\e[0;31m\]\u\[\e[0m\]\$ '
  

• F*!@#$% Accessible FAQ

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